The Lucasville plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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82° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 80° in 1902.
Lucasville’s center stands about 560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 510 ft to 1,080 ft, a difference of 570 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Smith Hill, about 1,220 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, Undivided (shale, sandstone), from the Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 25×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale, black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Lucasville reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Scioto, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,600 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lucasville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lucasville has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lucasville normally reaches 57° and falls to 34°. The record high is 79°, in 1955; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.36 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Portsmouth-Sciotoville, 10 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
